A 30-Day Practice Plan

Fifteen minutes a day for a month is enough to move most typists from around 40 WPM to 60 or beyond. The plan below is deliberately boring: no tricks, just a progression that trains accuracy first and lets speed arrive as a side effect.

The four weeks

Week 1 — Slow and perfect. Run 15-second and 30-second tests at whatever speed lets you keep accuracy above 97%. It will feel painfully slow. You're not training speed yet; you're teaching your fingers correct paths so there's nothing to unlearn later.

Week 2 — Build consistency. Move to 30-second tests as your standard. Aim for your results to cluster tightly — three tests within a few WPM of each other beats one lucky fast run. Keep accuracy above 96%.

Week 3 — Add controlled pressure. Two normal tests, then one "push" test where you type about 10% faster than comfortable and accept the accuracy dip. Pushing briefly past your limit, then returning to controlled speed, is how the limit moves.

Week 4 — Longer endurance runs. Introduce 60- and 120-second tests. Longer tests expose rhythm breakdowns and fatigue that short sprints hide. Finish the month by comparing your weekly averages in your history — not your single best run.

Running the plan on this site

Everything the plan needs is built in. The duration selector above the test covers all four lengths — 15, 30, 60, and 120 seconds — so each week's prescription maps directly onto a setting. A daily session is simply six to ten tests: one slow warm-up, the day's working runs, and one cooldown at an easy pace.

Your last 50 results are saved in your browser automatically, and the history page shows your bests and averages per duration. Check it weekly, not daily — day-to-day scores swing with sleep and mood, and reading noise as failure is how practice streaks die. The result screen's personal-best and streak banners are there for encouragement; the weekly average is there for truth.

When you plateau

Almost everyone stalls somewhere around week three. A plateau nearly always has one of three causes, each with a direct fix:

• Accuracy debt. If your accuracy has drifted below 95%, your speed is built on guesswork. Drop back to week-1 pacing for two days until 97% feels easy again — the stall usually breaks immediately after.
• Tension. Fatigue and hammering creep in as you chase speed. If your forearms are tight after a session, you're pressing too hard. Lighten your touch and shorten sessions; tension caps speed more than technique does.
• Rehearsing the same pace. Typing at one comfortable speed forever trains exactly that speed. If every run lands within 2 WPM, you've stopped training and started rehearsing — reintroduce the week-3 push runs.

After day 30

Expected outcome for a 35–45 WPM starting point: 55–65 WPM with better accuracy than you started with. The plan fails only when sessions get skipped — consistency is the entire mechanism. From there, maintenance is cheap: five minutes a day holds your level, and repeating the week-3/week-4 cycle once a quarter keeps raising the ceiling. Speed decays slowly and returns fast, so a missed week is a speed bump, not a reset.